Wedding flowers?

Question

For those of you who have recently married and those planning how much do you feel is the average cost of flowers for the wedding?

Looking at a bride bouquet (roses) and 4 bridesmaids. Then for guys and family it would be about 16 boutenierres and 12 coursages (nothing too fancy). I hope to make the pew flowers myself and table decorations will be candles and colored fake leaves for fall. Cake table my baker is decorating. Someone told me around 1,000...sure was hoping that was a HIGH estimate!!

Answer 1

What a good question for me to read, :P ... I just went yesterday to pick out all of my flowers. I can give you a round about estimate based on what we went through yesterday.

Brides Flowers - You want roses, not sure how many nor what kind. I've got 20 black magic roses with 5 starburst lillies - that was $170. I think a dozen roses in a wedding setting could possibly go for $80, also, to keep down the cost, I asked for them to be hand wrapped, and not in a holder. Some holders can run you $20 a piece. Didn't really like the look of the holder either.

4 bridesmaids - I am assuming you're going to want roses for your bridesmaids as well. I got my maid of honour and bridesmaids kind of the same thing. Maid of honour was 6 white roses and 3 black magic roses, with 2 starburst lillies - that was $70. The bridesmaids were the same but all white roses and 2 starburst lillies. Same price. I imagine a few large bloom roses would be $50-$70.

Boutenierres - I got a ton of them too, all for $6.99 each. 1 black magic rose for my fiance and the rest white roses.

Corsages - I got a set of 3 sweetheart roses (all burgundy) ... They were $12.99 each.

ALSO, before I forget, you'll have to pick out all the greenery that you want, and that also gets added onto your cost.

The pew flowers you want to do yourself, you'll still have to find strands of flowers, not too sure how much that'll all cost you. Not too sure how many you need, you'll need some kind of holder as well I guess.

On the table, you'll be having candles and fall leaves. Just a tip, not sure if you know - but you can buy bagged fall leaves at the dollar store with 50 leaves per bag. You can get them at craft shops as well, but hey, the dollar store! You're gonna want to save money where you can! :)

I ended up getting roses and lillies for on my cake (I've got a 3 tiered cake with pillars between each layer atop a 3 tier waterfall) so I needed a lot of flowers there too, as well as a ring of flowers on each of the tables. I bought lanterns to put on each table. It's different than the votive candle provided by most places, and it cost $70 to buy 14 of these lanterns, they were on sale for $2.99 each one weekend, so I rushed over to Ikea and grabbed a ton of them :D ... Also have flowers and ivy rings around the lanterns on the table, with white and burgundy flowers.

So for what you're looking for, I don't think you're going to be spending $1000! :) ... You could possibly be looking at $500-$600 though, depending on where you go, where you live, etc, higher or lower.

Good luck, and I'm sure it'll be gorgeous! :)

Answer 2

Cost depends on where you are, geographically, and when you're getting married. If your wedding date is around Valentine's Day or Mother's Day, the cost of roses will skyrocket. Around here, a simple boutonniere is $7.50. Corsages are about $15 each. A clutch bouquet of roses (you'd be amazed at how many roses are actually in a clutch bouquet), could run you $185 to $250. Bridesmaids' bouquets start at about $50. You do the math. We're located in the midwest and prices will be higher in major metropolitan areas.

Answer 3

It's all variable on the cost of your wedding & what you want. For my wedding we spent $500 on flowers. We did not do floral centerpieces to save money. In general it's a percentage of you budget. Average is about 10%.

http://www.brides2wives.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=976

Answer 4

I used this infographic:

http://www.silkblooms.co.uk/blog/?p=439

Generally, flowers are about 10% of your overall wedding flowers budget but it's broken down in the inforgraphic.

Answer 5

Depends what you need. I think we are spending around $600 & we don't have a wedding party, just the groom & myself. Most of that price is centerpieces & then I'm having a live flower on my cake which cost $125. You just need to figure out what you need & what your budget is.

Answer 6

Flowers can be a big part of your budget. It depends!! If you are having the cermony and reception it two different places that will make for a large budget!! Or if the hall will include flowers that will bring the budget down. If you want small budgets- have the bridesmaid walk down with two or a single rose. or flower! you can opt for candles for centerpiece instead of flowers! But flowers can be anywhere forom 10 to 25% of your budget!

Answer 7

well you should pick an accent color and use that throughout your wedding for the theme for invitations, flowers, reception, ceremony programs, etc. I went to a B&W wedding last Feb and they also used deep hot pink on a lot of things.

Answer 8

Try and keep as cheap as possible, think of ways that you can recycle the wedding flowers? That was my experience anyway.

Answer 9

A easy way to save money is to make the boutonnieres and bouquets your self. Or you can go to a craft store like Michael's and they don't charge much for them, and they make nice ones. It sounds kinda lame, but In our case we didn't have a lot of money, and we had some crafty people in our family.. Good luck and Best wishes!

Answer 10

Not sure on the average cost, but I spent about $350. I just got for the Bridesmaids, me, the groomsmen, flower girls & ring bearer and close family.